there needs to be a limit on how many of one merc are in play on a team at one time. I just went up against a team of Phoenix’s and was scraped due to spawn camping and my team not being able to kill them.

Every merc has its weakness and when a whole team chooses the same merc they open themselves up to some serious difficulties if the enemy team chooses their mercs and playstyles right.

If a whole team of Phoenixes were against me, I would go Stoker to burn them and prevent them from self reviving/getting revived by another Phoenix, or Fletcher (since he can insta-kill 100 health mercs with his bombs), or Vassili for the quick gibbing of downed opponents, or Fragger for his insta-kills.

You want to make their abilities useless.
They can heal each other if they get to low health? Good - enjoy this 1 shot kill (Vassili, Fragger, Fletcher, Nader).
They can revive each other/themselves? Good - enjoy getting gibbed before they can even try (Vassili, Stoker).

So in conclusion having limits is pointless in a well designed game where each merc has its own individual strengths and weaknesses - the punishment for not enough merc variety is a heavy strategic weakness if the opposing team is smart enough to take advantage of it.

So in conclusion having limits is pointless in a well designed game where each merc has its own individual strengths and weaknesses - the punishment for not enough merc variety is a heavy strategic weakness if the opposing team is smart enough to take advantage of it.

There’s also the issue of not being able to play your primary merc due to the fact that the rest of your team has decided to go the same rout; meaning that cap was reached.

With one of the game-size options being 6v6, you’d have to make this limit a cap of 3, which doesn’t change much of anything. If the game-sizes were more along the lines of 15v15, then it might be something worth considering.

there needs to be a limit on how many of one merc are in play on a team at one time. I just went up against a team of Phoenix’s and was scraped due to spawn camping and my team not being able to kill them.

No.

Where exactly were they getting ammo in your spawn after running out? Your story sounds bogus.

there needs to be a limit on how many of one merc are in play on a team at one time. I just went up against a team of Phoenix’s and was scraped due to spawn camping and my team not being able to kill them.